Solving the paradox of the folded falling chain by considering the link transition and link geometry

DOI10.1007/S00707-018-2350-9MaRDI QIDQ2285497zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hong-Hsi Lee, Chih-Fan Chen, I.-Shing Hu

Publication date 8 January 2020

Published in Acta Mechanica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06942

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free motion of a rigid body (70E15)

Abstract: A folded chain, with one end fixed at the ceiling and the other end released from the same elevation, is commonly modeled as an energy-conserving system in one-dimension. However, the analytical paradigms in previous literature is unsatisfying: The theoretical prediction of the tension at the fixed end becomes infinitely large when the free end reaches the bottom, contradicting to the experimental observations. Furthermore, the dependence of the total falling time on the link number demonstrated in numerical simulations is still unexplained. Here, considering the horizontal kinetic energy and the geometry of each link, we derived analytical solutions of the maximal tension as well as the total falling time, in agreement with simulation results and experimental data reported in previous studies. This theoretical perspective shows a simple representation of the complicated two-dimensional falling chain system and, in particular, specifies the signature of the chain properties.

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